Pinkaroo,
I'll try and explain this again (for the last time). I'm not defending the company per se. However, I do realise that something needs to be done to remain as an airline and to remain profitable. All other departments are getting cut, so why do you think CC are different? I don't necessarily agree with it, I'd love for all of us to earn £100K a year but it's not sustainable.
Try having a chat with a loader, engineer, MT driver, check-in staff and ask what's happening in their department. It's not pretty, and I'm having to watch several friends in different department being paid off and most likely not able to get another job in the forseeable future. This is what makes me grateful to have a job in the current climate.
What you do need to understand, is that the company is getting seriously fed up with this "NO!!NO!!NO!!" attitude from unions. At least if the unions turned up at meetings and behaved like adults and negotiated properly, you would have a better chance of getting somewhere. This doesn't mean I (or anyone else for that matter) want you to lose money, but there are obvious (to me anyway) areas where money could be saved from IFCE. You may not want to see it for yourself, and that's your perogative, but I'm being realistic here.
Gg